Courtesy of Kevin's tournament-approved iPhone. Gorgeous day, the waves were pounding and John Daly's pants were the closest we got to seeing Tiger today.
This weekend I was going through some old issues of Esquire and re-ran across this profile of Guy Ritchie. In the profile, we learn that Ritchie enjoys Brazilian Jujitsu, disobeying traffic rules and passionately prefers marmalade to jam. The comedic highlight comes when, over a series of pints, Ritchie explains why marmalade is far superior to jam. Through the profile, he also provides two of the three rules he's learned in life:
1. You have to be comfortable being uncomfortable
2. It's okay to have beliefs, just don't believe in them.
As for the third, Ritchie turns off the reporter's recorder before sharing the third. If you get a spare second, it's worth a read -- definitely one of the better profiles I've read recently.
[ Esquire: Please be seated. Guy Ritchie's life will begin shortly ]
Sometimes when I've had a long or hard day, I Google "puppy and dandelion" and one minute and 12 seconds later, everything is infinitely better.
This is eyeopening and depressing. ESPN has a salary calculator where you can see how you compare to professional athletes. According to this, Mark Texiera makes my salary in half an at-bat, and I would need to work 417 years to make the value of his annual contact. At least Jason Bay has to play half a game to even up with me. I'd better get back to work.
ESPN: How do you compare?
On Christmas Even we paused for a few minutes to take a quick family photo. The lighting wasn't great, and I finally decided to break out the tripod. I framed the shot and told everybody to hold still to make sure it looked OK. This is what I got.
Seems that lately this blog has turned into nothing but a photo blog with a paragraph thrown in as window dressing. Hopefully that will change in the coming months. Maybe I'll find a few things to talk about. We spent 10 days in Omaha for the holidays, got snowed in, watched some basketball and caught up with family and friends. Let's do it again next year.
Celebrated the 26th today, and I had already gotten most of my birthday gifts. Courtney wakes me up and tells me to check my e-mail because she got me one more gift. She'd already gotten me a 22-game season ticket pack to the A's. She said she thought I needed something to wear to the games, so she bought me an A's T-shirt jersey. Not just any jersey, but a Rollie Fingers T-shirt jersey. Courtney's not the biggest baseball fan, but she took the time to do a little research. She passed on the cheaper Matt Holliday jersey, since he no longer plays with the A's, but her reason for picking the Fingers jersey showed the way to my heart.
"I didn't know what kind of jersey to get you, but I Googled 'Rollie Fingers' and saw his sweet 'stache and figured that might be something you'd be in to."
Awesome.
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